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“I’d be lying if I said that it wasn’t a struggle…” (The Mark Marshall...
Most artists find completing one album a daunting task, so when we heard that the independent musician Mark Marshall was not only going to release four albums over the course of the next year, but...
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“I’m already watching the project evolve…” (The Mark Marshall Interview, Part...
Most artists find completing one album a daunting task, so when we heard that the independent musician Mark Marshall was not only going to release four albums over the course of the next year, but...
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Once: The U.S. Release that Almost Wasn’t
The first time that I saw the movie Once (affiliate link), it was via a less-than-perfect DVD copy in a conference room with two dozen music industry executives, assistants and interns. It was...
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Whrrl 2.0: Let Your Fans Tell Your Story
Over the last month or so, we started noticing many updates on Twitter and Facebook that were being posted from something called Whrrl. Curious, we did some investigating and discovered a...
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Smackdown: Music Is My Day Job vs. Digital Music News
On the DigitalMusicNews.com today, editor Paul Resnikoff published an piece on independent/D-I-Y musicians and the relatively bleak outlook he predicts for the future careers of the vast majority of...
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Chuck D: Get Yourself Out of the 90s
I finally sat down and spent some time going through the Red Bull Music Academy interview with Public Enemy’s Chuck D from October of 2008, and while it is long (more than 120 minutes!), it’s...
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Musicians Library: Highlights from Around the Web (5 May 09)
In our Musician’s Library features, we highlight books, articles and essays that can help musicians as they strive to earn a living from their music. Today, we feature some of our favorite articles...
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The Key to Success
Several weeks back, the New York Times published an article by a business coach based in Mesa, AZ, titled “Is This the Time to Chase a Career Dream?” and ever since reading it, the words of the...
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Ghostbusters and the Modern Musician, part I (Keymasters & Gatekeepers)
Few films seem to have had as lasting an impact on my adolescent mind as did Ghostbusters. Yes, in my later teenage years, like many of you, I spent hours pondering over works by Fellini and...
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Musician’s Library: The 4-Hour Work-Week, part 1 (Elimination)
Here at Music Is My Day Job, we’re always looking for new ways to help you make music your full-time gig, thus our “Musician’s Library” feature, where we look at books, articles and ideas that you...
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